Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I must leave the meeting shortly because I will be speaking elsewhere. We all appreciate that 80% is a good rate of collection but 20% of plastics is a massive amount to leave sitting around. It is just not good enough. The officials told us that the Department is setting a target of 70% for the IFFPG every year but that company is still getting 100% of the levy. What would happen if I priced a house for Mr. McDonald and built 70% of it but took 100% of the money? He would come after me for the other 30% to get it finished somehow. It is not good value for public money that the Department is setting a target of only 70% for a company that is getting 100% of the levy.

We heard about Mr. Walker earlier. Why are departmental officials so quiet about what happened in that case? Have they anything to say about it? Are officials worried that the waste management infrastructure, whether it is recycling or farm plastics, is falling apart?